Archive for April 2008

The monthlies.

• Clinton’s Coffers

  Hillary Clinton has won the Pennsylvania primary, and by wide enough a margin to validate her continuing campaign. The Clinton camp has also spread the news that the campaign has raised “well over $1 million in the two hours since she was declared the winner.” My question: who are these people? Working-class rural voters armed [...]

• Another New Low

  President Bush is getting good at one thing: becoming more despised. Sixty-nine percent of Americans disapprove of Bush’s handling of everything. “The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.” Immediately following the horrific attacks of nine-eleven, the president’s approval rating [...]

• Nothing To See Here

  I thoroughly enjoy the argument made by the Justice Department defending the former EPA Administrator’s liability over saying that the air was fine to breathe in-and-around lower Manhattan immediately following the events of nine-eleven, “that holding the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency liable would set a dangerous precedent in future disasters because public [...]

• Bolek & Lolek: Volume 1

  My wife remembered these cartoons while growing up in Poland so she added them to the queue. The two boys day-dream about adventures in exotic places (Australia, South America, the Arctic), and run into trouble along the way. Cartoons for children is such a temporal issue so I am not sure these would be good [...]

• The Most Important Charade

  I ripped pretty hard on Hillary Clinton yesterday, I might as well rip into Barack Obama this morning. This election is being billed by the Obama campaign* as “the most important in a generation” (in some wording, one way or another). This is a crock of shit. This is not the most important election of [...]

• Clinton Supporters Yearn to Bring Back the 90s

  If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times. The Clinton years were good, so electing Hillary will bring back those good times. What a silly and disastrous argument. First, what does the First Lady have to do with anything the president does? It may be considered unfortunate, but very little. If Hillary [...]

• Adviser

  It took the Obama campaign a little less than a week to accept my advice and lower expectations for tomorrow’s primary in Pennsylvania. Although I would have started this strategy sooner, if not immediately following last week’s debate, it is better late than never. “I’m not predicting a win. I’m predicting it’s going to be [...]

• The Car Analogy

  I have now heard it from both sides, from supporters of the Obama campaign and supporters of the Clinton campaign, that the opponent (whomever that is, Clinton or Obama) would be disastrous as either a candidate or as the chief executive. I think I can aptly contrast the choice between Clinton and Obama as the [...]

• No Issue Too Important

  The New York Times’ Frank Rich on the disastrous Democratic debate we were all forced to witness this past week… “Viewers of all political persuasions were affronted by the moderators’ failure to ask about the mortgage crisis, health care, the environment, torture, education, China policy, the pending G.I. bill to aid veterans, or the war [...]

• Goodbye Blogger

  Well, this was abrupt, even for me. This past week, as I have been catching up with a lot of the side-projects I have found myself involved in, I had made the determination that I would convert this blog from Blogger to Movable Type in July. Why July? This July will mark the fifth full [...]

• WordPress

  I have moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Let’s see what happens.

• Flag Pin Redux

  I thought I should say this, er, blog this, so that I am as straightforward and honest with the readers. I thought about this very long this morning (in fact, too long, so long so that I missed my bus), but I wanted to let everyone know that I decided to not wear a flag [...]

• Flag Pin

  I just wanted to mention this, because I know this may come back to haunt me if I do not address this issue, immediately… Although I do not wear a flag pin on my lapel, I want every reader to know — across this wonderful blogosphere — that I love the American flag, and I [...]

• Currently Reading

  Well, I finally finished the Last of the Mohicans last Friday. It was a complete disaster, but it had to do be done. The most frustrating part of the novel was the author’s recurring references to the book itself, reminding the reader that he/she was in fact reading a book. For example, Cooper would start [...]

• American Gangster

  Ladies and gentlemen, the film of the year. This easily deserved top honors at the most recent Academy Awards. This film is like an orchestral piece, with a perpetual crescendo, filled with suspense. Russell Crowe was made for the role of a cop, and he simply pulled in one of the best cop acting performances [...]

• Prefident Bush: Comeback Kid

  The struggling economy and the faltering war in Iraq is taking a toll on the president’s popularity…

• Ghostwriter

  You’ve got to hand it to Merck. Not only was the drug Vioxx rushed to market, lacking adequate trials and research, in a pure effort to pile-on profits (amid questionable marketing tactics), the research studies that were written on the deadly drug were ghostwritten. Now that is how you streamline operations and trim costs. And [...]

• Obama Strategy Session

  I think Pennsylvania is a long-gone conclusion, even before Barack Obama made his gaffe, and Hillary Clinton will take the state, somewhat easily. I don’t think anyone would object to this projection. But what does this mean for the race? A big win in Pennsylvania may suggest that Obama — given six weeks to campaign [...]

• There Will Be Blood

  I am surprised that this subject — the early history of the oil industry — hasn’t been explored before in films. Daniel Day-Lewis certainly earned his Oscar, but what really brought me in was the score. It was magnificent, and should have easily won an Academy Award. (Returned 04/15/08.) Rent with Netflix.

• Potentially Fatal

  It was suggested that the only thing that could bring down Barack Obama was Obama himself… “It’s not surprising then that [blue-collar workers] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”- Barack Obama

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